Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) is an innovative strategy to help low-wage workers increase their incomes by stabilizing employment, improving skills, increasing earnings, and easing access to work supports. In its first year, WASC connected more workers to food stamps and publicly funded health care coverage and, in one site, substantially increased training activities.
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- William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Ford Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Rockefeller Foundation
- Joyce Foundation
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- James Irvine Foundation
- U. S. Department of Agriculture
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families
- United States Department of Labor
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- North America / United States (Midwestern) / Ohio / Montgomery County / Dayton
- North America / United States (Northeastern) / Connecticut / Fairfield County / Bridgeport
- North America / United States (Western) / California / San Diego County / San Diego
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